Kabul (BNA) General Abdul Rahim Wardak left his assignment as acting minister of National Defense and while bidding farewell with the ministry’s staffs left the ministry’s headquarter.
General Wardak who was talking at the presence of the media and the ministry’s staffs said that he appreciation the attention of President Karzai towards his and the ministry’s staffs and while praising the members of the House of people for two terms he had been given the vote of confidence as Defense Minister and in respecting its recent decision, he noted that he leave the Defense ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, part of the reason violence has spiked in Afghanistan, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday.
In a demonstration of the increasingly deadly attacks, a roadside blast in the east where U.S. soldiers operate killed three NATO troops, while two separate roadside bombs in the south killed 16 Afghan civilians, officials said.The Afghan defense minister, Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, said terrorists who would have once fought in Iraq have been ...